2009 Drama Festival
16th - 21st March
8 PM
(7:30 PM on Sat 21st)
Tickets £7
(£6 concessions)
Courtyard Theatre
Ballyearl
028 9084 8287
2009 Drama Festival
A Newtownabbey Borough Council Arts Event
Monday 16th March
The Lonesome West by Martin Donagh. CB Players.
Valene and Coleman are two brothers living together in their father's house after his death. They find it impossible to live together without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent topics. Only Father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.
Tuesday 17th March
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon. Theatre 3 Newtownabbey.
Suite 719 of the posh Plaza Hotel finds three couples making love, war and laughter; a mismatched couple seeks to reinvigorate its lost romance, a slick movie producer attempts to seduce an old flame, and a bride locks herself in the bathroom on her wedding day as her parents frantically try to coax her to the ceremony.
Wednesday 18th March
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn. Clarence Players.
A suburban trio of married couples is linked by the work of the husbands. Fiona and Frank are at the top of the three couples, the other two men being business subordinates. One of the other couples is attractive and upcoming, despite the fact that she is an utter slob and he is a boor; and the third pair is socially hopeless but earnest. The action takes place at two dinner parties given on consecutive nights.
Thursday 19th March
True West by Sam Shepard. Bangor Drama Club.
Two brothers meet up at their mother's house after a five year gap. One is a screen writer, the other a drifter. They challenge each other's lives — both real and imagined. A Hollywood producer unwittingly upsets the balance of the brother's relationship with unforeseen consequences.
Friday 20th March
The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson. Ballymoney Literary & Debating Society.
Three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past emerge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships.
Saturday 21st March
Born in the Gardens by Peter Nichols. Bart Players.
Eccentric Maud lives with her son Mo, an antiquarian bookseller and trad jazz enthusiast, in a dilapidated Mock Tudor house. Maud's other children, Hedley and Queenie, arrive for their father's funeral and try to persuade Maud to go to a modern duplex in London and Mo to join Queenie in California, but both prefer to remain where they are. "Not all of us" Mo says "want freedom. Captivity has its points as well".
The Lonesome West by Martin Donagh. CB Players.
Valene and Coleman are two brothers living together in their father's house after his death. They find it impossible to live together without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent topics. Only Father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.
Tuesday 17th March
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon. Theatre 3 Newtownabbey.
Suite 719 of the posh Plaza Hotel finds three couples making love, war and laughter; a mismatched couple seeks to reinvigorate its lost romance, a slick movie producer attempts to seduce an old flame, and a bride locks herself in the bathroom on her wedding day as her parents frantically try to coax her to the ceremony.
Wednesday 18th March
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn. Clarence Players.
A suburban trio of married couples is linked by the work of the husbands. Fiona and Frank are at the top of the three couples, the other two men being business subordinates. One of the other couples is attractive and upcoming, despite the fact that she is an utter slob and he is a boor; and the third pair is socially hopeless but earnest. The action takes place at two dinner parties given on consecutive nights.
Thursday 19th March
True West by Sam Shepard. Bangor Drama Club.
Two brothers meet up at their mother's house after a five year gap. One is a screen writer, the other a drifter. They challenge each other's lives — both real and imagined. A Hollywood producer unwittingly upsets the balance of the brother's relationship with unforeseen consequences.
Friday 20th March
The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson. Ballymoney Literary & Debating Society.
Three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past emerge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships.
Saturday 21st March
Born in the Gardens by Peter Nichols. Bart Players.
Eccentric Maud lives with her son Mo, an antiquarian bookseller and trad jazz enthusiast, in a dilapidated Mock Tudor house. Maud's other children, Hedley and Queenie, arrive for their father's funeral and try to persuade Maud to go to a modern duplex in London and Mo to join Queenie in California, but both prefer to remain where they are. "Not all of us" Mo says "want freedom. Captivity has its points as well".
